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Pride Month 2025 Daily Challenge Day 8: Favorite Genderfluid Character

A throwback, but I still love Val/entina so much

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being in small fandoms is so fun bc back in the height of mcu fandom anything less than 10k was a flop post but in my little fantasy book fandom i get 40 notes and am giddy for days

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got into gen:lock again so I made something

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Fandom is truly beautiful and eternal- you can have executives come in and ruin a series and the fans can be so distraught and yet years later someone new will pop into an old discord having just watched it and all of us who have been lurking in the catacombs of the fandom space come back to life it’s so wonderful

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Pros of being an artist: you can make your favorite characters kiss!!! Yippee!!!!

Cons of being an artist:

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On your knees for me

So marvel rivals managed to hook me into a SECOND ship somehow???

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Yep. That is absolutely all you need to know about GL. Great job everyone 👏

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Sooooo. RL progress has in fact been slow on account of life, but I did this mostly on a flight soooo. Have some shogun sniper my lovelys

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Chase: Truth or dare? Kazu: Dare- Yaz: Kazu isn't allowed to accept dares anymore. Chase: Why not? Kazu: *Crosses arms and sighs* "I have no regard for my own or anyone else's personal safety." as some would say.

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HEY not a rwby post but while i have a lot less followers here than on main, i probably have more fans of RT media here SO:

remember gen:lock? do you still have a gaping, bleeding, agonizing, mecha-shaped hole in your chest like i do??? and do you happen to like comics?!?!?!?!?

WELL i finally got around to checking out @thesouppond's gen:lock re:loaded project - and i HIGHLY recommend it!!! it's an independent fan comic that comes from a place of earnest love and passion for the first season of GL and its original vision, giving a glimpse into what season 2 could have been. the illustrations are really pretty, the characterization is on point... so far it's basically everything i wished for </3

the first few pages of the main story was released a few days ago, but please read through the prologue chapters first! you can also read more details about the overall project HERE.

i really love dedicated fan projects like these so i had to give it a shoutout!!

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*grabs you with my tiny hands* YOU GET THEM!!!!!!! YOU GET THEMMMMMMM IT SHOULDVE BEEN YOU FR. THIS IS ABOUT GENLOCK

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Thank youuuuu! Also finding out this morning we're finally mutuals was the greatest thing to wake up to hahah.

AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO'S SHOWN LOVE TO THIS PROJECT OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS. I cannot express how happy it's made me seeing us rally together over this show. I'll do my best not to let yall down!!

Shouting out a few of the many reactions across all my platforms that have made me smile:

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Not to hijack a post but this is 99% of the reason why Reloaded exists. GENLOCK RELOADED IS A TRIBUTE TO WHAT COULDVE BEEN AND I REFUSE TO LET THIS IP DIE WITHOUT FULFILLING IT EVEN IF IT TAKES ME A FUCKASS LONG TIME BECAUSE HOLY SHIT COMIC WORK TAKES AGES.

i just thought about genlock and got really pissed off

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So, Discord has added a feature that lets other people "enhance" or "edit" your images with different AI apps. It looks like this:

Currently, you can't opt out from this at all. But here's few things you can do as a protest.

FOR SERVERS YOU ARE AN ADMIN IN

Go to Roles -> @/everyone roles -> Scroll all the way down to External Apps, and disable it. This won't delete the option, but it will make people receive a private message instead when they use it, protecting your users:

You should also make it a bannable offense to edit other user's images with AI. Here's how I worded it in my server, feel free to copypaste:

Do not modify other people's images with AI under ANY circumstances, such as with the Discord "enhancement" features, amidst others. This is a bannable offense.

COMPLAIN TO DISCORD

There's few ways to go around this. First, you can go to https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new , select Help and Support -> Feedback/New Feature Request, and write your message, as seen in the screenshot below.

For the message, here's some points you can bring up:

Concerns about harassment (such as people using this feature to bully others)

Concerns about privacy (concerns on how External Apps may break privacy or handle the data in the images, and how it may break some legislations, such as GDPR)

Concerns about how this may impact minors (these features could be used with pictures of irl minors shared in servers, for deeply nefarious purposes)

BE VERY CLEAR about "I will refuse to buy Nitro and will cancel my subscription if this feature remains as it is", since they only care about fucking money

Word them as you'd like, add onto them as you need. They sometimes filter messages that are copypasted templates, so finding ways to word them on your own is helpful.

ADDING: You WILL NEED to reply to the mail you receive afterwards for the message to get sent to an actual human! Otherwise it won't reach anyone

UNSUSCRIBE FROM NITRO

This is what they care about the most. Unsuscribe from Nitro. Tell them why you unsuscribed on the way out. DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. They're a company. They take actions for profit. If these actions do not get them profit, they will need to backtrack. Mass-unsuscribing from WOTC's DnD beyond forced them to back down with the OGL, this works.

LEAVE A ONE-STAR REVIEW ON THE APP

This impacts their visibility on the App store. Write why are you leaving the one-star review too.

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Regardless of your stance on AI, I think we can agree that having no way for users to opt out of these pictures is deeply concerning, specially when Discord is often used to share selfies. It's also a good time to remember internet privacy and safety- Maybe don't post your photos in big open public servers, if you don't want to risk people doing edits or modifications of them with AI (or any other way). Once it's posted, it's out of your control.

Anyways, please reblog for visibility- This is a deeply concerning topic!

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SLIGHT INTERRUPTION IN MY USUAL CONTENT TO POST THE EDIT I MADE OF THE SHIP I SOMEHOW GAINED FROM PLAYING MARVEL RIVALS OF ALL THINGS

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how it feels to have no social media presence as an artist